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Prof. Wojciech Noszczyk Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Scientist, Full Professor of Medicine, surgeon. Born in 1935 in Warsaw. His father Henryk Noszczyk, Officer of the Polish Army and associate professor at the Surgery Clinic of the University of Warsaw, died in Katyń. Graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw in 1960. After a residency in the City Hospital at Kasprzaka St. began work at the 4th Surgery Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw. In...

prof. Władysław Findeisen Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1926 in Poznań. In 1944, under secret schooling, he passed his Matura exam in the Stanisław Staszic General Secondary School in Warsaw and joined the Home Army. Took part in the Warsaw Uprising, fighting in the Śródmieście and Mokotów Districts. Captured and taken to a stalag and returned to Poland in 1945. That year he began his studies at the Faculty of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University...

Olga Tokarczuk Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1962 in Sulechów. She graduated in psychology from the University of Warsaw. Author of novels The Journey of the Book People (1993), E.E. (1995), Primeval & Other Times (1996), House of Day, House of Night (1998), Final Stories (2004), Anna In in the Tombs of the World (2006), Flights (2007), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009), The Books of Jacob (2014), short story collections The Wardrobe (1998)...

Herbert Clark Hoover, (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. from November 1921. American politician, U.S. President, Republican Party activist. The well-known humanitarian activist for many years helped Poland after it regained independence. He became famous as an organiser of aid to civilians during the First World War. Until July 1919 the American Relief Administration, led by him, provided food assistance for 10 million people,...

Mr Paweł Pawlikowski Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 30th May 2019 He wrote and directed Ida (2013), the first Polish film to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He teaches at the National Film School in the UK and the Wajda Film School in Warsaw. He began his directorial career with documentaries, making several important films (including ones commissioned by the BBC), for which he received an Emmy International, Prix Italia and dozens of other awards. He considers...

Mr Jerzy Majkowski Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 30th May 2019 He started working for the Underground State in 1942 (Szare Szeregi [Grey Ranks], District Wola, Giermkowie Wolności , Troop IV, Squad III). He participated in the operations of the so called minor sabotage. On 2 August 1944, after the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, he joined “Anna” Company of the NOW-AK „Gustaw” Battalion in Wola District and assumed the pseudonym of “Czarny”. He fought in the battles on Wolska St. and...

Ms Halina Jędrzejewska Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 30th May 2019 In the Underground she was known under the pseudonym of Sławka, a front-line nurse during the Warsaw Uprising, later a doctor, and a veteran activist. She graduated from the Juliusz Słowacki Secondary School in Warsaw and passed the secondary school leaving exam in July 1944 under the underground education framework. She started working for the Underground State in July 1940 when she joined the 3. Czerwona Warszawska...

Wojciech Roszkowski (born on 20 June 1947 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 7 June 2018 A politician, economist and scholar specialising in contemporary history, economic history and political sciences. In 1965 he graduated from the King Władysław IV General Secondary School No. 8 in Warsaw, and in 1971 he completed studies at the Faculty of Foreign Trade of the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw. In 1978 he defended his PhD dissertation, and in 1987 received a...

Anna Przedpełska-Trzeciakowska (born on 5 July 1927 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 7 June 2018 A translator of American and British literature. She graduated from the Cecylia Plater-Zyberkówna Private Girls’ School and completed English language studies the University of Warsaw. She was a medic during the During the Warsaw Uprising (alias Grodzka). After the War she worked at the English editorial office of the “Czytelnik” Publishing Cooperative. She was an active member of...

Janina Maria Ochojska (born on 12 March 1955 in Gdańsk) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 7 June 2018 A humanitarian activist, the founder of the Polish Humanitarian Action, an astronomer. She graduated from General Secondary School No. 1 in Zabrze. In 1980 she completed her studies in the field of astronomy at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Until 1984 she worked at the Department of Astrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the Astronomical Centre in Toruń. Since the...